Painter s implement



(No Model.)

M. FRED.

I PAINTERS IMPLEMENT. No. 429,515. Patented June 3, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTS FRIED, OF HANCOCK, MICHIGAN.

PAINTERS IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 429,515, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed December 10, 1889. Serial No. 333,183. (No model.)

To all whom i may cmw rn: C and G designate the members of the Be it known that I, MATTS FRED, a citizen of handle, which are pivoted at their upper ends the United States, andaresident of Hancock, to the shank of the knife, and are formed in the county of Houghton and State of with the channels or recesses O to receive Michigan, have invented certain new and usethe screw when the handles are closed upon ful Improvements in Painters Implements; the screw, and the member 0 of the handle 5 and Ido hereby declare thatthe followingisa is formed with the hook O to engage the full, clear, and exact description of the invenround of a ladder or adevice on the Wall, and tion, which Will enable others skilled in the the member 0 is provided with a hook C to art to which it appertains to make and use receive the bail on a paint-pot and serve as a the same. hanger for said pot. 50

My invention relates to improvements in From the drawings and description it will what may be termed a painters implement, be readily seen how the device serves in its the same combining in a single implement a respective ofiices and herein needs no further putty-knife, screw to serve as a hold for the explanation.

painter while painting, and apaintpoth'anger. It is evident that I provide an inexpensive 5 5 The object of my invention is the provision implement which possesses features of merit of an implement of the character mentioned calculated to commend it to all desirous of which will contain the separate devices in a possessing such an article.

single implement, each device being thor- Having thus described my invention, I

oughly efficient for its respective purpose, claim and desire to secure by Letters Patand theimplementitself being as inexpensive ent of the United States of production, or nearly so, as either of said The herein-described implement, consisttools. ing of the knife-blade A, having the screw- 2 5 To attain the desired object the invention shank B, the two-part handle 0 0, each pivoonsists of the novel and peculiarly-conoted to the knife and provided with hooks C structed device illustrated, described, and O and channels 0 to receive the screw when claimed herein. the handles are closed, substantially as set Figure 1 represents a perspective view of forth.

30 the device as aputty-knife. Fig. 2 represents In testimony that I claim the foregoing as a perspective View thereof, showing the screw; my own I have hereunto affixed my signature and Fig. 3 represents a side view thereof as in presence of two witnesses.

a paint-pot hanger.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A des- MATTS FRED.

3 5 ignates the blade of the putty-knife, which is v formed with the corner A, and the shank of Witnesses: the knife is formed into a screw B, adapted MATTI EsKnI, to serve asa hold for the painter when screwed J AOOB POVE. into a wall or other place. 

